The "Beyond Race
and Citizenship: Indigeneity in the 21st Century" Conference
comprises three (3) keynote speeches and six (6)panels, which are
featured on nine (9) separate DVDs. The cost of each DVD is $25
plus shipping and handling for individuals (jewel case only, no printed material) and $100 plus shipping and handling for institutions. A 25% discount is applied to the purchase of the
complete set of 9 DVDs. Go back to the conference main page under
the "Events" heading and tab on "More Info"
for a complete description of the DVD content.
#1 — Keynote speech: “Land
as a Source of Cultural Identity”
#2 — Keynote
speech“Context is Everything: Cultural Survival in the 21st
Century”
#3 — Keynote speech“Views
from My Grandmother’s Veranda”
#4 — Panel 1: Indigenizing and Claiming Culture
This panel explores historical and contemporary processes
by which Indigenous people have Indigenized, and thereby appropriated, so-called
Western cultural practices and institutions to make them their own. Relevant
examples include the rise of Aztec dance groups among Chicano youth, Choctow
Indigenization of higher education, and Indigenous musicians from Bolivia, Ecuador
and Peru transnationalizing Andean music. These instances speak to the dynamic
nature of Indigenous culture.
#5 — Panel 2: Mapping Our World: Mind, Memory, and
the Science of the Sacred
Recent trends in academia focus on Indigenous people’?
relationship to the land. Much of these research findings work toward protecting
the environment, treaty rights, and reestablishment of Indigenous peoples’
historical and cultural relationship to the land. This panel focuses on Indigenous
peoples’ experience of life in their natural surroundings within which
the uniqueness of Indigenous peoples’ ways of life developed. It explores
how academia might move beyond considerations and definitions of race as identity,
to take as a starting point the definitions of ‘who we are’ that
are rooted in ancient ontological awareness and the basic paradigmatic perspectives
these provide.
#6 — Panel 3: Shared Experiences of Indigeneity
in a Global Context
This panel explores the relationship between Native Americans
and Indigenous peoples around the world. It examines common historical experiences
of imperialism and colonialism and contemporary impacts of similar and different
state policies regarding recognition, land rights, and citizenship. Also of
importance is the rise of movements to forge transnational ties and promote
cross-national organizing among Indigenous peoples.
#7 — Panel 4: Historicizing and Dehistoricizing
Gender
This panel explores continuities in women’s power and
authority in Indigenous societies. It develops a critical perspective on anthropological
and archival accounts of women and gender by exploring local knowledges of women’s
lives as passed down by elder women. It interrogates the relevance of Western
concepts of gender and feminism to Indigenous culture and the significance of
gender to Indigenous nationalism.
#8 — Panel 5: Nation to Nation
This panel explores political and cultural relations in nations
whose territory spans borders such as Apache bands (ranging from New Mexico
to northern Mexico), in nations separated by distance, such as the Seminoles
in Oklahoma and in Florida, and the Lakota Nation versus the United States,
the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) government's legitimacy, and the US intervention
into internal/domestic affairs.
#9 — Panel 6: Critical Themes and Emerging Issues
This panel explores common threads that run through the various sites of
political engagement in struggles over Indigenous identity: alternative meanings
of sovereignty, essentialism versus the essential, valorizing and using local
knowledges, historicizing and dehistoricizing Indigenous experience; issues
of belonging: inclusion and exclusion, enfranchisement and disfranchisement.
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